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Rare painting of the Saginaw River
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Posted on 10/13/2015 2:38:31 PM PDT by Utah Binger
Robert Clunie was born June 29, 1895 in Renfrewshire, Scotland. He began painting outdoors in his native Scotland at the age of 13 and was accepted to the Royal Scottish Academy. However, he cancelled his enrollment choosing instead to go to America.
In 1911, he and his older brother William boarded the S.S. California for New York. Upon their arrival to the United States, they joined relatives in Saginaw, Michigan. In January 1918, wanting to escape the dark cold Michigan winters, Clunie boarded a train to Pasadena, California. It was on this return train trip back to Saginaw that he first saw, and fell in love with, the Sierra Nevada, taking the northern route over Donner Pass from San Francisco. By the end of 1918, he and his older brother drove to California.
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: award; history; michigan; painting; renfrewshire; robertclunie; saginaw; scotland; scotlandyet
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To: Utah Binger
It’s a beautiful painting one can fantasize in for hours
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posted on
10/13/2015 2:40:43 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: Utah Binger
Outstanding!
Great subject, detail, color.
The light is amazing.
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posted on
10/13/2015 2:49:18 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: Utah Binger
“A CB antenna for every roof.” I am trying to surmise by the shadows what direction the painter was facing, and what time of day is depicted. Would there happen to be a link to a higher resolution copy so I can download it, frame it, and enter it into an art contest?
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posted on
10/13/2015 2:52:44 PM PDT
by
Fester Chugabrew
(Diversity is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharing the same jail cell.)
To: Utah Binger
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posted on
10/13/2015 2:53:03 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: Fester Chugabrew
My guess is that these are lightning rods, unless this is the home of some kind of early amateur radio society.
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posted on
10/13/2015 3:07:49 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Fester Chugabrew
Another view?
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posted on
10/13/2015 3:10:30 PM PDT
by
yoe
(Few things are more worthless than an unloaded shot gun)
To: Fester Chugabrew
There’s hardly any shadow to be seen too. It looks to me like a thickly overcast day, with the result of light being pretty well evenly diffused from the sky.
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posted on
10/13/2015 3:10:35 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Utah Binger
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posted on
10/13/2015 3:15:15 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: Utah Binger
Alexis de Tocqueville, on his trip around America in the 1830s, wanted to take a trip into "the wilderness" and made his way by horse with a friend and two Indian guides. They traveled from Detroit to Saginaw Bay, having crossed two rivers, the Flint and the Saginaw, to get there.
The Indian trail he took is the old Dixie Highway from Detroit to Saginaw.
He spent the night at Loon Lake just north of Detroit.
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posted on
10/13/2015 3:20:18 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
To: cripplecreek
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
I love this song. It always bugged me though how the so called hero defrauded his father in law by selling him a worthless piece of land. Who is worse the arrogant father, or the thief? I guess just this thought should have marked me as a Conservative years before I even knew it.
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10/13/2015 3:24:36 PM PDT
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Glad2bnuts
(If God himself said every 50 years debt should be erased, and land returned, who am I to disagree?)
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posted on
10/13/2015 3:25:26 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: MUDDOG
We obtained the painting yesterday. Too bad museums in Michigan are hurting as it should be in a collection such as that. The painting was the winner at the L.A. County Museum in 1937.
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posted on
10/13/2015 3:27:22 PM PDT
by
Utah Binger
(Ancestral Puebloan Xeroid)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
10/13/2015 3:30:12 PM PDT
by
Utah Binger
(Ancestral Puebloan Xeroid)
To: knarf
It is really quite powerful. And the size is 36x42 inches so it is monumental in that regard.
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posted on
10/13/2015 3:32:09 PM PDT
by
Utah Binger
(Ancestral Puebloan Xeroid)
To: Fester Chugabrew
We might make it available later. I’m sitting here in front of the piece right now. Just got it yesterday.
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posted on
10/13/2015 3:35:05 PM PDT
by
Utah Binger
(Ancestral Puebloan Xeroid)
To: Glad2bnuts
I never really gave it much thought. I love Lefty Frizzell’s singing though.
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posted on
10/13/2015 3:36:39 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: Slyfox
Great history in that region. How deep is the river where they crossed?
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posted on
10/13/2015 3:36:46 PM PDT
by
Utah Binger
(Ancestral Puebloan Xeroid)
To: fieldmarshaldj
I stumbled across some interesting history while looking for info on something else.
I was wondering where the Will Carleton Poorhouse near Hillsdale Michigan got it’s name and discovered poet William Carleton. He lived in the poorhouse while he was a student at Hillsdale college in the late 1860s. His poetry was kind of interesting in the sense that he wrote about hard work, family, and resisting taking charity.
>>What is the use of heapin on me a paupers shame?
Am I lazy or crazy? Am I blind or lame?
True, I am not so supple, nor yet so awful stout:
But charity aint no favor, if one can live without.<<
http://www.hillsdalecounty.info/history0053.asp
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posted on
10/13/2015 3:38:02 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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